Chapter Summaries

The Seven Star Palace captured and enslaved a Flame Demon Clan Elder, while Cai Lin entered the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs to cultivate and Xiao Yan learned that his next priority was returning to the palace to advance his strength. The chapter left Lin Yuan preparing to target more Flame Demon Clan elders and Xiao Yan departing with Xiao Xuan.

• Kai Yang, Yao Guang, and Yu Heng defeated and captured a Flame Demon Clan Elder while Tian Ji enslaved the clan's Saint Realm fighters at the barracks.
• Lin Yuan subdued the Elder, whom Tian Ji enslaved and renamed Yan Ten, and learned the locations and strength of the Flame Demon Clan's remaining elders.
• Lin Yuan told the Seven Star Palace group to rest, deal with the lower-ranked Flame Demon Clan warriors, and then move on to another target.
• Cai Lin entered the Nine Netherworld Yellow Springs to find the Sky Swallowing Python's nest and cultivate, after Xiao Yan promised to care for Xiao Xiao and marry her when she returned.
• Xiao Xuan told Xiao Yan that he no longer needed to seek an opportunity in the Yellow Springs and urged him to handle the Gu Lei Yan clans' affairs, return to the Seven Star Palace, refine the Bodhi Heart, and break through to Dou Saint.

Xiao Xuan explained to Xiao Yan why the Xiao Clan bloodline had not awakened after his breakthrough, then accompanied him to the Ancient Clan. His sudden return left the leaders of the Ancient, Yan, and Lei Clans stunned as Gu Yuan recognized him and realized he was still alive.

• Xiao Xuan explained that his bloodline had vanished when his lord saved him after his failed breakthrough and Hun Tiandi's ambush.
• Xiao Yan said he would grow strong through his own cultivation, and Xiao Xuan opened a spatial rift to take him to the Ancient Clan.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying debated what to do with the Ancient Clan's Source Qi of the Emperor while remaining wary of the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Yan arrived in the Ancient Realm and revealed that he was the Second Generation Successor of Tianshu Hall.
• Xiao Yan announced that Hall Master Tianshu was the main visitor, and Xiao Xuan emerged from the spatial channel.
• Gu Yuan recognized Xiao Xuan and exclaimed that he was still alive.

Xiao Xuan revealed that the Seven Star Palace had rescued him after his failed breakthrough and that he had become a Two-star Dou God. After settling his grievance with Gu Yuan over the Xiao Clan’s neglect, he announced his mission: to take the Ancient Clan’s Source Qi of the Emperor and bring the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans into the Seven Star Palace to defend the Dou Qi Continent against foreign races.

• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying questioned Xiao Xuan about his survival, his role as Hall Master Tianshu, and his strength, and Xiao Xuan explained that the Seven Star Palace had rescued him and that he had reached Two-star Dou God.
• Xiao Xuan confronted Gu Yuan for failing to protect the Xiao Clan and for sending Gu Xun'er to seek the Tou She Ancient God Jade.
• Gu Yuan accepted responsibility and asked Xiao Xuan to spare the rest of the Ancient Clan, and Xiao Xuan agreed to punish Gu Yuan by beating him.
• Xiao Xuan returned with Gu Yuan after their private dispute, leaving Gu Yuan bruised and badly injured while Xiao Xuan appeared relieved.
• Xiao Xuan announced that his mission was to take the Ancient Clan’s Source Qi of the Emperor and have the Gu, Yan, and Lei Clans join the Seven Star Palace to resist foreign races.

Xiao Xuan forced the Gu, Lei, and Yan Clans to join the Seven Star Palace by revealing the threat of the Outer Realm Evil Clan and the consequences of refusing. After the clans signed the Palace’s contracts, Lin Yuan supplied Source Qi of the Emperor to help their leaders advance to Half-Emperors.

• Xiao Xuan told Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying that their clans had to join the Seven Star Palace to face the Outer Realm Evil Clan, and warned that refusal would cost them the Palace’s protection and erase their memories.
• The three clan leaders discussed the demand with their clans, then agreed to join on the condition that none of them be assigned to Tianshu Hall, and Xiao Xuan accepted.
• Xiao Xuan contacted Lin Yuan, who sent contracts and fourteen strands of Source Qi of the Emperor through a Spatial Rift and ordered the clan leaders to prepare for a future counterattack against the Flame Demon Clan.
• The three clans signed the Seven Star Palace contracts, and Xiao Xuan distributed four strands of Source Qi to Gu Yuan and five each to Yan Jin and Lei Ying so they could reach the Half-Emperor realm.

Hun Tiandi discovered a tiny Spatial Rift opening in the Soul Realm and sensed Source Qi of the Emperor beyond it. After the Soul Clan failed to force it open, he declared the area forbidden and ordered Nihility Devouring Flame and the others to guard it.

• Hun Tiandi sensed unusual spatial activity in the Soul Realm and arrived at its source with Nihility Devouring Flame and several Soul Clan experts.
• A tiny Spatial Rift appeared, and Hun Tiandi's soul power was blocked when he tried to investigate it.
• Hun Tiandi sensed Source Qi of the Emperor beyond the rift and ordered the Soul Clan experts to attack it together.
• The attack shattered space around the rift but left the area within five meters untouched, so Hun Tiandi concluded that an unknown powerhouse was opening a channel from beyond the domain.
• Hun Tiandi declared the site a Forbidden Land and ordered Nihility Devouring Flame and the others to guard the rift and report any changes.

Lin Yuan learned that the Ice Demon Clan planned to enter the Dou Qi Continent through a Spatial Rift in the Soul Realm, then prepared to seize control of the Flame Demon Battlefield. He trapped the Flame Demon Clan headquarters and confronted its remaining High-level Earth Supreme, freezing the elder’s fire dragon as their battle began.

• Lin Yuan learned from the system that the Ice Demon Clan Ancestor had opened a Spatial Channel in the Soul Realm and expected his clansmen to arrive within half a year.
• Lin Yuan told Xiao Xuan to monitor the Soul Realm and wait until Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame received their Supreme Ranking rewards before exterminating the Soul Clan.
• Xiao Xuan sent a soul clone to watch the Soul Clan and the Spatial Rift it guarded.
• After more than five months, Lin Yuan and his allies enslaved two Lower Earth Supremes and five Supreme Realm elders of the Flame Demon Clan, leaving three powerful elders at its headquarters.
• Lin Yuan and the four Hall Masters trapped the headquarters inside the Heaven Covering Ancient Array while their allies engaged the two Ninth Grade Supreme elders and the lower-ranking forces.
• Lin Yuan confronted the remaining High-level Earth Supreme elder, then froze the elder’s Heaven Burning Fire Dragon into an ice dragon.

Lin Yuan defeated the Flame Demon Clan’s strongest elder and brought the battlefield’s defenders under Seven Star Palace control. Meanwhile, the Ice Demon Clan and Soul Clan prepared to open their Spatial Channel, but an explosion and a wave of extreme cold struck the Soul Realm as Xiao Xuan doubted the Soul Clan could safely negotiate with them.

• Lin Yuan fought the Flame Demon Clan’s strongest elder while the four Hall Masters and seven servants subdued the other defenders in the stronghold.
• Lin Yuan used Cold Domain Star Meteor to seal the elder inside an ice peak, leaving the Flame Demon Clan’s battlefield guards under Seven Star Palace control.
• Hun Tiandi told the Soul Clan that he intended to use the Ice Demon Clan’s Spatial Channel to move his clan to the Great Thousand World, while remaining prepared to resist if they were attacked.
• Nihility Devouring Flame worried that the Ice Demon Clan might attack the Soul Clan, and Hun Tiandi said they could rely on their strength and the Heaven Dao Gold Ranking’s coming rewards.
• Xiao Xuan secretly judged that the Ice Demon Clan would not negotiate fairly with the Soul Clan, and an explosion followed by a wave of extreme cold swept through the Soul Realm.

Hun Tiandi negotiated with Bing Yun, an Ice Demon Clan expert who had crossed into the Dou Qi Continent, seeking a safe path for the Soul Clan to reach the Great Thousand World. Bing Yun revealed that the Flame Demon Clan’s Sealing Boundary Array restricted travel between worlds, and Hun Tiandi’s question about the Flame Demon Clan left him startled.

• Bing Yun broke through the boundary between worlds and introduced himself to Hun Tiandi as an envoy of the Ice Demon Clan.
• Hun Tiandi invited Bing Yun to a pavilion, dismissed the Soul Clan Dou Saints, and asked for permission to lead his clan to the Great Thousand World without being attacked.
• Bing Yun mocked Hun Tiandi’s bargaining position and revealed that his treasure let him fight at Second Grade Sovereign strength.
• Hun Tiandi deduced that the Flame Demon Clan’s Sealing Boundary Array limited the Ice Demon Clan to sending one person at a time, and Bing Yun confirmed it.
• Hun Tiandi asked why the Flame Demon Clan had sealed the Dou Qi Continent, and Bing Yun reacted with surprise that he had never heard of them.

Bing Yun learned about the Dou Qi Continent’s powers and the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking, then tried to investigate the Seven Star Palace with Hun Tiandi. Xiao Xuan trapped them inside the sealed Soul Realm, where they remained as the Gold Ranking appeared again.

• Bing Yun questioned Hun Tiandi about the Flame Demon Clan, learned about the Seven Star Palace and the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking, and ordered Hun Tiandi to accompany him to the Far North.
• Hun Tiandi and Bing Yun found that the Soul Realm had been sealed, and Hun Tiandi suspected the Seven Star Palace was responsible.
• Xiao Xuan watched from outside the Soul Realm after activating the Seven Star Palace’s Sealing Array on Lin Yuan’s orders.
• Bing Yun and Hun Tiandi failed to escape or break the array, then gave up resisting and waited for the Ice Demon Clan to reopen its Spatial Channel.
• Seven days later, the Gold Ranking returned and announced that it would rank the Dou Qi Continent’s twenty strongest experts, regardless of race or identity.

Lin Yuan brought the newly advanced Mu Hongyan and the Tian Quan Hall Master back to the Dou Qi Continent to prepare for the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking, while keeping the Flame Demon Battlefield sealed. At the Seven Star Palace, Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying reunited with old acquaintances and were astonished to see the Tian Quan Hall Master and Tian Xuan Palace Master.

• In the Soul Realm, Bing Yun and Hun Tiandi’s Soul Clan discussed their chances on the Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking, while Bing Yun secretly decided the Soul Clan must not reach the Great Thousand World.
• Lin Yuan kept the Flame Demon Battlefield’s Sealing Boundary Array in place and waited as Mu Hongyan and the Tian Quan Hall Master broke through to the Second-grade Supreme Realm.
• Lin Yuan returned to the Dou Qi Continent with Mu Hongyan and the Seven Star Palace Hall Masters, leaving his Present World Body to guard the Flame Demon Battlefield.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying discussed their ranking prospects in the Gu Realm before Lin Yuan summoned them to the Seven Star Palace.
• Lin Yuan directed the three Clan Leaders to join Yao Dan, Ling Yun, and Shi Feng, and Gu Yuan recognized the Tian Quan Hall Master and Tian Xuan Palace Master among the assembled Seven Star Palace members.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed Nihility Devouring Flame as the twentieth-ranked expert, exposing his strength and role in sustaining the Soul Clan’s bloodline. After he received his rewards and broke through to the Half-Emperor Realm, Bing Yun examined his Emperor Source Qi while Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame discussed the Seven Star Palace’s possible strength.

• The Gold Ranking showed Nihility Devouring Flame’s origins and growth into a Flame of Destruction, then named him twentieth on the Supreme Ranking at Late Nine-star Dou Saint.
• The ranking’s announcement enraged Soul Shengtian and the other Soul Clan Dou Saints, who realized none of them had made the list.
• Nihility Devouring Flame received the ranking rewards, including a breakthrough to the Half-Emperor Realm and five wisps of Source Qi of the Emperor.
• Bing Yun tried to inspect Nihility Devouring Flame’s Source Qi, and Hun Tiandi persuaded Nihility Devouring Flame to let him examine it.
• Nihility Devouring Flame absorbed his rewards, while Hun Tiandi speculated that the Seven Star Palace had confronted the Flame Demon Clan and Bing Yun dismissed the palace as a faction of lower-realm natives.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed that Xiao Chen had survived the Soul Clan’s attack and risen to nineteenth place, while the next ranks were filled by Seven Star Palace experts. Xiao Chen gave Lin Yuan one strand of Emperor Source Qi and kept the remaining rewards to pursue the Dou Emperor realm as the ranking continued.

• The Six Great Ancient Clans’ patriarchs realized Nihility Devouring Flame had preserved the Soul Clan’s bloodline by devouring the Tunling Clan’s last patriarch, while Lin Yuan offered the flame to Lin Yan and she declined.
• The Gold Ranking displayed the Xiao Clan Crest and revealed Xiao Chen as its nineteenth-ranked expert, a Half-Emperor-strength deputy hall master who had survived the Soul Clan’s attack and joined Tianshu Hall.
• Hun Tiandi and Nihility Devouring Flame were shocked to learn Xiao Chen was alive and ranked above Nihility Devouring Flame.
• The ranking’s rewards raised Xiao Chen’s cultivation to the Half-Emperor realm and gave him two scrolls, six strands of Emperor Source Qi, and the Bloodthirsty Axe.
• Lin Yuan told Xiao Chen to send him one strand of Emperor Source Qi and use the rest of his rewards to pursue the Dou Emperor realm; Xiao Chen obeyed gratefully.
• The ranking announced Lin Jue, Lin Miao, and Lin Feng in eighteenth through sixteenth place, then revealed Lin Yi as fifteenth place and listed his new rewards.

The Gold Ranking revealed that Lei Ying, Yan Jin, and Gu Yuan had joined Seven Star Palace and become Half-Emperors with Lin Yuan’s help, leaving Hun Tiandi alarmed about the strength of his rivals. After the three received their ranking rewards, Lin Yuan took one pill from each and predicted that an Ice Demon Clan Half-Emperor would appear next.

• The Gold Ranking named Lei Ying fourteenth and revealed that he had joined Seven Star Palace and reached the Half-Emperor realm with five strands of Source Qi of the Emperor.
• Hun Tiandi realized the Lei Clan’s alliance with the Ancient Clan and Yan Clan might have brought those clans under Seven Star Palace’s control.
• The Gold Ranking placed Yan Jin thirteenth and Gu Yuan twelfth, revealing that both had also joined Seven Star Palace and become Half-Emperors.
• Gu Yuan, Yan Jin, and Lei Ying offered their rewards to Lin Yuan, who took one breakthrough pill from each and let them keep the rest.
• Xiao Xuan predicted that Hun Tiandi would rank above the Ice Demon Clan Half-Emperor, but Lin Yuan said the Ice Demon Clan ant would appear next.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed Bing Yun as an Ice Demon Clan invader preparing the way for his tribe’s conquest of the Dou Qi Continent, then ranked Hun Tiandi tenth for his power and thousand-year scheme. The continent learned that the Seven Star Palace may have been defending it against Outland Tribes as the ranking continued to reveal Hun Tiandi’s rewards.

• Lin Yuan argued that Hun Tiandi’s preparations and rewards made him stronger than Bing Yun.
• The Gold Ranking revealed Bing Yun as an Ice Demon Clan descendant sent to the Soul Realm to scout the continent ahead of a future invasion.
• Bing Yun received his ranking rewards but felt humiliated when the Soul Clan learned his position was below Hun Tiandi’s.
• The Pill Tower Three Giants connected the ranking’s revelations to the Seven Star Palace’s secret defense against Outland Tribes.
• The Gold Ranking revealed Hun Tiandi’s tenth-place ranking, his Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array, and his near-Emperor strength.

The Gold Ranking revealed Hun Tiandi’s schemes and ranked Dan Feng, the supposedly dead founder of the Pill Tower, as a Two-star Dou God and the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall. Hun Tiandi recognized the man he had once ambushed, while the continent learned that Dan Feng had survived, joined the Seven Star Palace, and received a reward that raised him to the Three-star Dou Emperor Realm.

• The Gold Ranking revealed that Hun Tiandi had used the Soul-Devouring Life-Extinguishing Array to nourish himself, causing panic across the continent.
• Hun Tiandi wondered how the Gold Ranking could identify experts stronger than him, and Bing Yun suggested they had advanced outside the Dou Qi Continent on the Flame Demon Clan’s refined continents.
• A silver-masked Tian Quan Hall Master appeared in the Gold Ranking, and Hun Tiandi recognized him as Dan Feng, whom he had believed died after an ambush a thousand years earlier.
• The Gold Ranking revealed that Dan Feng had escaped with help from the Seven Star Palace, become Tian Quan Hall’s Hall Master, and reached the Two-star Dou God Realm.
• The Gold Ranking’s reward immediately raised Dan Feng to the Three-star Dou Emperor Realm, astonishing people across the continent.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed Mu Hongyan as eighth and Tang Fen as seventh, granting both powerful rewards and raising their cultivation. The Soul Clan feared that Dan Feng and other presumed-dead enemies had survived, while the ranking’s revelations continued.

• The Soul Clan Dou Saints panicked over Dan Feng’s return and suspected that he had sealed the Soul Realm, while Hun Tiandi recalled a familiar figure.
• Lin Yuan told the Hall Master of Tian Quan Hall to keep his rewards and use them to strengthen himself after the Soul Clan’s affairs were settled.
• The Gold Ranking revealed Mu Hongyan as eighth, raised her cultivation to the Three-star Dou Emperor Realm, and awarded her several treasures.
• The ranking showed Burning Flame Valley, prompting Tang Zhen, Old Ancestor Huoyun, and Hun Tiandi to wonder whether another presumed-dead powerhouse remained alive.
• The Gold Ranking revealed Tang Fen as seventh, identified him as the former Founder of Burning Flame Valley and current Hall Master of Tian Xuan Hall, and raised him to the Three-star Dou Emperor Realm.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed that Burning Flame Valley’s founder, Old Ancestor Fen Yan, was alive as Seven Star Palace’s Tian Xuan Palace Master, and he moved the valley into a newly opened space. The ranking then named Bai Yan, the Purifying Demonic Lotus Saint, as sixth and showed his power and rewards.

• Burning Flame Valley’s elders learned that Old Ancestor Fen Yan had survived the Soul Clan’s ambush, reached the Two-star Dou God Realm, and become the Tian Xuan Palace Master of Seven Star Palace.
• Old Ancestor Huoyun revealed that Fen Yan had healed him and granted him treasures after his injuries.
• Fen Yan uprooted Burning Flame Valley and the Blazing Volcano Range, moved them into a newly opened space, and announced that the valley would join Seven Star Palace’s Tian Xuan Hall.
• Central Continent experts found the Blazing Volcano Range gone, while the Gold Ranking displayed the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame as its sixth-ranked expert, Bai Yan.
• Nihility Devouring Flame recognized the Purifying Demonic Lotus Flame and learned that Bai Yan had refined it with Seven Star Palace’s help before reaching the Two-star Dou Emperor Realm.
• The Gold Ranking raised Bai Yan to the Three-star Dou Emperor Realm and granted him cultivation methods, pills, a puppet, and a Flame of the Great Thousand World Origin.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed that Zhu Kun had been trapped in Tou She Ancient God's Tomb before Ice Emperor Lin Yuan rescued him and made him a Seven Star Palace Hall Master. The revelation exposed that the Soul Clan’s thousand-year plan centered on an already emptied tomb, and the ranking began revealing a familiar figure that terrified the Soul Clan.

• The ranking announced Zhu Kun as fifth place, identifying him as the Ancient Void Dragon Clan’s former Old Dragon Emperor and Hall Master Kai Yang of the Seven Star Palace.
• The ranking recounted how Zhu Kun found Tou She Ancient God's Tomb, was trapped as its gatekeeper, and was rescued by Lin Yuan a thousand years earlier.
• Zhu Kun advanced to the Three-star Dou Emperor level and received pills, a Six-star Dou Emperor puppet, and a Soul Divine Artifact.
• Hun Tiandi concluded that Lin Yuan had taken the Emperor Grade Nascent Pill from the tomb and realized the Soul Clan’s thousand-year plan had been misguided.
• The Flame Clan Totem appeared again, and the Soul Clan members panicked as a familiar figure emerged on the ranking.

The Heavenly Dao Gold Ranking revealed Xiao Xuan as fourth on the Supreme Ranking, prompting despair in the Soul Clan and an argument between Hun Tiandi and Bing Yun. The ranking then showed a golden snake growing into a colossal beast and named Huang Quan as third, while the Nine Netherworld Dark Python Clan hoped he was connected to them.

• The ranking named Xiao Xuan fourth, revealed his history and Seven Star Palace position, and awarded him a breakthrough to Three-star Dou Emperor, pills, a puppet, and a divine artifact.
• Soul Clan elders despaired over the powerful enemies listed, while Bing Yun blamed their predicament on the clan’s actions and Hun Tiandi warned him to focus on defending the Soul Realm.
• Hun Tiandi silently hoped the Seven Star Palace would not arrive before the Ice Demon Clan’s Spatial Channel reopened in three days.
• The ranking showed a golden snake surviving dangers and growing into a colossal creature, leading Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Netherworld Dark Python Clan’s Great Elder to suspect it was the Yellow Spring Demonic Saint.
• The ranking announced Huang Quan as third on the Supreme Ranking.

The Gold Ranking revealed that Yellow Spring was third on the Supreme Ranking and Bodhi was second, listing their powers, histories, and rewards. Their rankings exposed the Seven Star Palace’s role in defending the continent from the Outer Realm Evil Clan, while Bodhi’s reward raised him to the Five-star Dou Emperor Realm.

• The Gold Ranking named Yellow Spring third, revealed his role guarding the Flame Demon Clan’s Southern Continent channel, and rewarded him with a two-star breakthrough, pills, a puppet, and a Bloodline Evolution Pill.
• Hun Tiandi realized the Seven Star Palace had sealed the Soul Realm to stop the arriving Ice Demon Clan experts from endangering the continent.
• Yao Xiaotian and the Nine Netherworld Dark Python Clan’s Great Elder celebrated Yellow Spring’s ranking and planned to seek his help joining the Seven Star Palace.
• The Gold Ranking revealed Bodhi as the Bodhi Ancient Tree and named him second, describing his strength and his defense of the Sea Region channel.
• Bodhi’s reward raised him to the Five-star Dou Emperor Realm and granted him pills, a Nine-star Dou Emperor puppet, and a soul treasure.